Hi Charlie here nature is as tough and unforgiving as it is beautiful and amazing at the end of the
day it's always the survival of the fittest over the years more than 5 billion animal species have
gone extinct this includes many of the ancient creatures that dwelled our planet thousands or
millions of years ago but it turns out some of these creatures may still be alive with us today
scientists have studied fossils and found out that some animals alive and well today have
been around for millions of years and because of various very convincing sightings some animals we
thought were extinct aren't frilled shark for a long time it was believed this species of shark
had gone extinct but in 2007 frilled sharks were discovered off the coast of japan these are most
commonly found in saruga bay japan it looks rather terrifying underwater it has an ill-like body but
with the head of a shark it is around 2 meters in length and is known for its dark brown color
it gets its name from its six pairs of gill slits the frilled shark's eyes glow in the dark but by
far the scariest part about this animal is its teeth the frilled shark has an excessive 300
trident shaped teeth these teeth are spread out over 25 rows and its mouth is actually
much larger than the average sharks these sharks are highly endangered there's almost none of them
left in the world but considering they've been around for so long that's quite an achievement
they are considered living fossils that's because they've been around for so long are you ready for
the number 80 million years on earth this is one species that simply won't die out woolly mammoth
it is said that woolly mammoths went extinct roughly 10 000 years ago but based on various
sightings and even fossil finds many believe they're still around today after all there are
large areas of siberia which we have not explored and scientifically that would be the most likely
place wooly mammoths would be woolly mammoths are like gigantic furry elephants with tusks
known for their gigantic size and weight they were over 11 feet tall and weighed seven turns
that is the weight of four medium-sized elephants woolly mammoths actually went extinct a lot sooner
than we thought you see they went extinct on mainland ten thousand years ago but they were
still living on wrangle island in the arctic ocean only four thousand years ago and in 2012
a woolly mammoth sighting was recorded the animal could be seen walking through this siberian river
the person filming it did not want to get too close they did not want to scare the animal away
and also they were worried about their own safety some said that this could be an elephant
but there are no wild elephants in siberia as late as 1948 frozen woolly mammoths have been found
but do you think some may still be alive in siberia today nautilus this marine creature
does not even look real it is a mollusk and belongs to the natility family no that's
nothing to do with nutella these animals have been around for more than half a billion years
its name means sailor because it's a great swimmer it can live at incredibly deep depths down in the
ocean this is good because it means predators can't get to them that is partly why they've
survived on earth for so long these animals can be found in tropical waters all over the world
this includes the waters of fiji anderman and the great barrier reef much like the frilled shark
nautilus are also considered living fossils before we move on make sure you guys do your good deed
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baiji the baiji is a suspected extinct animal but in recent years experts believe that this dolphin
may have returned to the yangtze river this is the river they're native to in china they are
a kind of dolphin which used to be very common but after the three gorgeous dam was built these
went extinct or so that's what people thought in 2006 chinese environmental scientists said
this animal had gone extinct but just one year later in 2007 one of these animals was videotaped
a chinese man recorded this animal swimming in the yangtze river scientist and baiji expert wang ding
confirmed this was a real authentic sighting this led to a massive expedition to try and find more
researchers travelled more than 2 200 miles but sadly they did not see another beijing however
they only covered a very small percentage of the massive yangshi river this means that
beijings are likely still out there somewhere the question is will humans ever see them again
before they really die out sturgeon sturgeons are the oldest member of the bony fish family
they are more than 200 years old they have finns which are very similar to that of sharks
and a very long smooth body they also have what's known as scoots these are five rows of bony plates
which serve as body armor they range between 7 to 12 feet in length and they can weigh up to 2 600
pounds the largest sturgeon was captured in 1827 it was caught in volga russia but these sturgeons
can also be found in north america in fact they are north america's largest freshwater fish
black leopard black leopards look absolutely majestic but sadly for more than 100 years we
had believed they'd gone extinct that was until 2019 a wildlife photographer named
will barad lucas called these amazing images he photographed this black leopard in kenya
and this proved that the elusive black leopard was not extinct for decades kenyans had shared
rumors of black leopards wandering around at night and sometimes scaring village locals
many believed that this was just myths and hearsay but it turns out it may have been true coelacanth
celo camps are normally found near the kimoro islands this is off the east coast of africa they
are very hard to see because they live so far down they're typically found around 2 300 feet below
the surface these animals live for 60 years but they've been around for more than 360 million
years their average length is six and a half feet and they normally weigh around 200 pounds sponge
no i'm not talking about the thing you find in your kitchen sea sponges are
actually very strange animals and it's what spongebob is supposed to be for many years
scientists believed sea sponges were 540 million years old that's impressive already but in july of
2021 canadian geologists made an amazing find they found 890 million year old sea sponges in ancient
reefs this means that sea sponges are nearly 1 billion years old there's over 5 000 different
species of sponges in the world they're famous for not having any organs whatsoever they're also
pretty much immortal that's because if part of their body is ever damaged it simply grows back
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